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Software Development Engineer in Test II

Canada, Waterloo, ON

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

PlayStation is looking for an SDET to join a global initiative in building innovative and robust test automation, tooling, and CI/CD systems in a sophisticated environment. In this role, you can expect to engage with engineers, products owners, and designers to drive an extremely high-quality bar for products which are used by over 100 million people. You'll craft new automation systems, improve existing ones, drive technical excellence, and develop new tools to tackle test problems.

Responsibilities:

  • Create, maintain, and execute test plan, test cases to ensure the quality of new features
  • Passionate about Quality and strive to improve processes, generate new standards, and drive their usage within the teams.
  • Partner with dev team to ensure test coverage and build test plans that help deliver high quality features
  • Develop and implement standard methodologies for in-house automation, automated testing, end-to-end testing, including device testing, and performance testing.
  • Maintain and improve existing Python and Selenium based automation frameworks
  • Author common API’s and libraries for test automation
  • Work with the infrastructure team to create and maintain common services such as CI pipelines

Required Qualifications:

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge
  • 3+ years of experience in developing and executing test plans and test cases
  • 3+ years or equivalent experience in advanced UI automation for web/mobile applications
  • Knowledge in one of the programming languages, Python, Java, JavaScript (Python preferred)
  • Practical experience using development and deployment tools: Git, Jenkins, Docker
  • Experience with Selenium or Appium
  • Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work quickly, productively, and independently in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Test or development experience on a non-PC device (phone/game console/set-top box, etc.)
  • Experience with React Native
  • Experience developing or writing test code for a game console
  • Experience with API testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI).

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We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

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